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will it be chuck hagel at the pentagon? that opens up all sorts of possibilities back in massachusetts. i want to talk about chuck hegel. this man came back from vietnam with two purple hearts. there is talk about him going to the pentagon but there are some republicans are not very happy with him. why? >> chuckagel was n to go to vietnam. he had orders to go to germany. he was at fort dix. he said i want to go to vietnam. in may and talk to the chaplain and psychologist, and after two weeks, he went to vietnam. he fought for his country, unlike his critics. he has bled for his country, unlike his critics. he understand war, unlike his critics. he did not have other priorities, like richard cheney, and never said it was going to be a cakewalk. he is prepared, ready, and bill cohen put it best. he has fought and bled for this country. he knows the subject matter. ask jim jones and other national security advisers. >> iraq and iran, that is what upsets people about shock hegel and some of the things he had to say about them.
will it be chuck hagel at the pentagon? that opens up all sorts of possibilities back in massachusetts. i want to talk about chuck hegel. this man came back from vietnam with two purple hearts. there is talk about him going to the pentagon but there are some republicans are not very happy with him. why? >> chuckagel was n to go to vietnam. he had orders to go to germany. he was at fort dix. he said i want to go to vietnam. in may and talk to the chaplain and psychologist, and after two...
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he came back from vietnam wh two purple hearts, talk about him going to the pentagon. there are some republicans who were not t very happy with hiss formerer republican senator. why? >> chuckck hagel had orders to go to germany. he was at fort d, new jersey and said i wanted to go to vietnam. they made him talk to the chaplain and pchologist. after two weeks, he went to vietnam. he has fought for his countntry unlike his critics. he has bled for his country unlike his critics. hehe understands war, unlike hisis critics. he does not have other incentives like dick cheney. he is prepared and r ready. bill cohen said it best. he has fought and bled for thisis country. he knows the subject matter. ask jim jones and other national securitydvisers. >> iraq and iran, that is what upsets people about huck hagel. >> he supported the war in iraq, voted in favor, and supported the war in afghanistan. it is an odd de that supported the two were that all the critics are now crying. he also, when it camtime to dean what was a losing war in iraq with the surge, he not only opopposed
he came back from vietnam wh two purple hearts, talk about him going to the pentagon. there are some republicans who were not t very happy with hiss formerer republican senator. why? >> chuckck hagel had orders to go to germany. he was at fort d, new jersey and said i wanted to go to vietnam. they made him talk to the chaplain and pchologist. after two weeks, he went to vietnam. he has fought for his countntry unlike his critics. he has bled for his country unlike his critics. hehe...
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will it be chuck hagel at the pentagon? which opens up all kinds of possibilities politically echo minister of massachusetts. i want to talk about chuck hagel. this is a man that came back from the number two purple hearts. talk about him going to the pentagon but there are some republicans who are not happy with his former republican senator from nebraska. why? >> chuck hagel was not to go to vietnam. he had orders to go to germany. he was at fort dix, new jersey and said i wanted to go to vietnam. in may and talk to the chaplain and psychologist and after two weeks, went to vietnam. he has fought for his country, unlike his critics. he has but pours countries, unlike his critics. he understands war, unlike his critics. he does not have other priorities, as richard cheney did at the same time in vietnam. he never said it was going to be a cakewalk. he is prepared, ready, and bill, and put it best. he has fought for his country and but for his country. he knows the subject matter. ask jim jones and other national security a
will it be chuck hagel at the pentagon? which opens up all kinds of possibilities politically echo minister of massachusetts. i want to talk about chuck hagel. this is a man that came back from the number two purple hearts. talk about him going to the pentagon but there are some republicans who are not happy with his former republican senator from nebraska. why? >> chuck hagel was not to go to vietnam. he had orders to go to germany. he was at fort dix, new jersey and said i wanted to go...
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it not only protect the pentagon budget, it increases and that billions of dollars. does anyone here believe there is not a single dollar to be saying to anywhere in the pentagon? the american people have spoken. they have made it loud and clear they want a balanced approach. they want to ask the wealthiest, most fortunate americans to pay a little bit more. it wants to protect our seniors, our children, and our most vulnerable neighbors. mr. speaker, let me say another thing about this process. i would say to my republican freshman colleagues, you rode to power on a wave of outrage over the way the house conducts its business. i would say to those freshmen, you own this now. you have officially become part of the problem if not the problem. they all take for this rule is a vote for an outrageous abuse of -- a vote for this rule is a vote for an outrageous abuse of power. they have made it fashionable not to worry about the poor, the elderly, the vulnerable. i urge my colleagues not to turn your backs on the most needy. this balance our budget in a way that does not
it not only protect the pentagon budget, it increases and that billions of dollars. does anyone here believe there is not a single dollar to be saying to anywhere in the pentagon? the american people have spoken. they have made it loud and clear they want a balanced approach. they want to ask the wealthiest, most fortunate americans to pay a little bit more. it wants to protect our seniors, our children, and our most vulnerable neighbors. mr. speaker, let me say another thing about this...
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in the first year you'd take us down to $472 billion for the core pentagon program, and that would be about the equivalent of 2006-2007, which accideincident was one of the highest spending years since world war ii, including all of the cold war. we'd only be cutting about 14%. dick cheney myself, and my boss colin powell at the time and george h.w. bush cut about 25%. this is not a draconian cut, even if it's done by se questation. >> you've warned about the industrial complex, nice turn of phrase there. is there any way out of it. >> well, dwight eisenhower is the man we should give credit to that. i don't know anymore. that's an excellent question. my former boss, colin powell, mentioned about nine months ago or something about us having created a industrial terrorism complex, and when you look at the homeland security budget, you look at $100 billion-plus for the intelligence community and ask what are we getting for it, and you look at this complex that we've created, dana priest and bill arcon of the washington post did a great job of covering this complex. 800,000-plus security
in the first year you'd take us down to $472 billion for the core pentagon program, and that would be about the equivalent of 2006-2007, which accideincident was one of the highest spending years since world war ii, including all of the cold war. we'd only be cutting about 14%. dick cheney myself, and my boss colin powell at the time and george h.w. bush cut about 25%. this is not a draconian cut, even if it's done by se questation. >> you've warned about the industrial complex, nice turn...
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she's held several big jobs at the pentagon and is very well respected. ashton carter, currently the number two, he has actually spent the last few years wrangling with the defense industry and also with congress, so he comes in with that kind of nuts and bolts experience of how to work through this period of reshaping. >> and when you think about hagel's personal views on iran, because that's, i think, the most substantive of the foreign policy critiques against him, what are they and do they matter for this job? sometimes i hear him and it sounds more like a secretary of defense issue than a secretary of state issue. >> if you remember, it has not been a year since we had a crisis of going to war with iran, so i imagine we'll have at least one more with hagel's tenure. we should exhaust options before we think of a military strike on iran, and that, fortunately or unfortunately, depending how you look at it, a military strike on iran will not necessarily stop iran's nuclear program, and hagel has been quite skeptical about it, a skepticism which is shar
she's held several big jobs at the pentagon and is very well respected. ashton carter, currently the number two, he has actually spent the last few years wrangling with the defense industry and also with congress, so he comes in with that kind of nuts and bolts experience of how to work through this period of reshaping. >> and when you think about hagel's personal views on iran, because that's, i think, the most substantive of the foreign policy critiques against him, what are they and do...
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the pentagon will do what it needs to do. it will go back to congress and say, now we need the money to make up for things we spend money on the war. host: this comes from twitter. guest: that is a tough question. i do not know. once you get up to major, lieutenant colonel, you are getting close to that number. they indoor tremendous hardships and often cannot buy a home because they are a mother around so much. there are a lot of sacrifices that goes on. host: scott in woodbridge, virginia. caller: good morning. i am a former marine and a military brat. my father retired from the navy. i have a long history of active duty. i think there is misinformation going on this morning. talk about $800 billion for the wars in the middle east. we spent double that on the stimulus plan. we've just talked on to the baseline and nobody says anything. you want to talk about military being overpaid. all these lieutenant colonel sit and above. compare with those of the civilian federal military force -- volume work force, i would like to see
the pentagon will do what it needs to do. it will go back to congress and say, now we need the money to make up for things we spend money on the war. host: this comes from twitter. guest: that is a tough question. i do not know. once you get up to major, lieutenant colonel, you are getting close to that number. they indoor tremendous hardships and often cannot buy a home because they are a mother around so much. there are a lot of sacrifices that goes on. host: scott in woodbridge, virginia....
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we see for a second time a trial balloon, chuck hagel, floated for the pentagon. all of this and commercial being bought and aired, admittedly only in the d.c. area and on cable, but they're spending real money, and are you seeing the conservative line-up against chuck hagel even before he has been nominated for the pentagon. you covered him on the hill. let's talk about why some of his fellow republicans are going after him so hard. >> that's the important point. he is a republican, and that would give the president an opportunity to look more bipartisan in his cabinet, so that's an important reason why his name is being floated. there's been a lot of concern among republicans that he was not as loyal to his party as they would have liked to have seen. some comments with respect to iran that they disagreed with. some of the challenges during chuck hagel's time here, there are long memories here, and when you talk about the delay of making any announcements about cabinet positions, it does open up this space for the criticism to flow in. it's in part due to the tr
we see for a second time a trial balloon, chuck hagel, floated for the pentagon. all of this and commercial being bought and aired, admittedly only in the d.c. area and on cable, but they're spending real money, and are you seeing the conservative line-up against chuck hagel even before he has been nominated for the pentagon. you covered him on the hill. let's talk about why some of his fellow republicans are going after him so hard. >> that's the important point. he is a republican, and...
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what happens is taxes go up on a lot of people and pentagon spending gets slashed. what they're worried about is the tea party in their own districts. so they don't want to vote to raise taxes. you know, they'd rather just see what harry reed and obama can do and let boehner just kind of twist in the wind here. >> you know, maria, you did that impression because when boehner's conference meeting was over and he admitted he didn't have to votes, it stunned the gop. i'm looking at a meeting where mike coffman said i've never seen anything like it where leadership just completely backed down. it is stunning. >> i think what ryan says is absolutely right. the problem right now with the gop is it's basically eating itself. and there's no place for them to go. not only do they not have leverage, but all of the sudden, today, when the president came out and communicated to the american people saying we are trying to make sure that we don't go over the fiscal cliff, we are trying to make sure that you have a job the next day, come january 1 and that we're not slashing defen
what happens is taxes go up on a lot of people and pentagon spending gets slashed. what they're worried about is the tea party in their own districts. so they don't want to vote to raise taxes. you know, they'd rather just see what harry reed and obama can do and let boehner just kind of twist in the wind here. >> you know, maria, you did that impression because when boehner's conference meeting was over and he admitted he didn't have to votes, it stunned the gop. i'm looking at a meeting...
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he made his comments earlier today at the pentagon taking reporters' questions. jill is following the story, a reporter from the air force times, a gannett public indication. she join us us in washington. as you look at this report and some of the addendums, what did you learn? >> well, it's really interesting, because it's buried way back there in the report. you'll see in appendix e, there's a whole list, aa time line of separate incidents that happened at dover port mortuary which we hadn't been aware of. it was that they lost remains for seven victims killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the pentagon and pennsylvania. some other incidents is a $25,000 pay outto the wife of the fallen marine whose personal effects were destroyed. two civilian cadavers used to test creamatory facilities. >> i realize they're not related, but a lot of attention last year at arlington national cemetery with how the remains of fallen soldiers were taken care of, and i guess the obvious question is how could this happen and how could it happen again in a lot of what we heard at
he made his comments earlier today at the pentagon taking reporters' questions. jill is following the story, a reporter from the air force times, a gannett public indication. she join us us in washington. as you look at this report and some of the addendums, what did you learn? >> well, it's really interesting, because it's buried way back there in the report. you'll see in appendix e, there's a whole list, aa time line of separate incidents that happened at dover port mortuary which we...
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the pentagon has become a leader but now it's time to expand that. if the president really took an aggressive set of actions we could actually meet this commitment that he made three years ago before the copenhagen negotiations for a 17% reduction in carbon pollution and then we could lead the way for international negotiations. >> eliot: let me just jump in on the clean air act. there is a point that people need to understand. the white house has been pretty good about issuing resolutions leading to new power plants. not existing coal burning plants. even though now regs are good, if you apply those retrospectively to existing coal plants then you would be capturing and harnessing a much bigger fish and something more important in terms of what the white house could do. that's what the white house should really be focusing on. >> i'm glad you spelled that out. he has put out standards for new power plants but as you said natural gas prices they're so low that no one was going to be building new coal plants any way. but we have hundreds of existing c
the pentagon has become a leader but now it's time to expand that. if the president really took an aggressive set of actions we could actually meet this commitment that he made three years ago before the copenhagen negotiations for a 17% reduction in carbon pollution and then we could lead the way for international negotiations. >> eliot: let me just jump in on the clean air act. there is a point that people need to understand. the white house has been pretty good about issuing...
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that is for th pentagon and domestic spepending. that means less money for contractors. >> robert rubin wrote this s week he thinks t they will beorced to do somhing fairly dramatic in the e lame-duck seson. he says they should -- rather than bicker over how much to spend on lower income americans -- that wewe really neeeed topend on education research investment. that iss not going to happen in this campaign yeyear. >> it is easy to say we should spend here and here. ththe problem is there is nmoney left. we are bumping up against the debt ceiling again. john boehner is ting to skirt that fight now. they're not sure when we will hit the debt limit but we're $50 trillion in debt with $1 trillion deficits every year. the party is over. there is going to be some reckoning. will throw one curve ball at you. if the supreme court sikes down parts of the health care law but not all of it, we could see a rise in the baseline. we could see some easing of the budget tension. some of the benefits that it cut out, there is a big cost associate
that is for th pentagon and domestic spepending. that means less money for contractors. >> robert rubin wrote this s week he thinks t they will beorced to do somhing fairly dramatic in the e lame-duck seson. he says they should -- rather than bicker over how much to spend on lower income americans -- that wewe really neeeed topend on education research investment. that iss not going to happen in this campaign yeyear. >> it is easy to say we should spend here and here. ththe problem...
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now that the supply lines have been reopened pentagon officials estimate it will take about two months to clear that backlog which stretches some 900 miles from the boarder to the port of karachi. the break through came when secretary of state clinton told the pakistani foreign minister the u.s. was sorry for the loss of life which occurred when american gunships accidentally opened fire on a pakistani border outpost last november pakistan had been demanding an apology but clinton's sorry apologized only for the 24 dead not for the incident itself which a u.s. investigation concluded was caused by mistakes on both sides. u.s. officials believe the pakistanis accepted that more limited apology because the closure of the supply routes was hurting pakistan at least as much as the u.s. pakistan lost several hundred million dollars in aid the u.s. withheld while the routes were closed, $250 in fees paid for each truck which crossed pakistani territory and perhaps the biggest loss, the pentagon stopped buying the fuel it used in afghanistan from pakistani refineries. it cost the pentagon an
now that the supply lines have been reopened pentagon officials estimate it will take about two months to clear that backlog which stretches some 900 miles from the boarder to the port of karachi. the break through came when secretary of state clinton told the pakistani foreign minister the u.s. was sorry for the loss of life which occurred when american gunships accidentally opened fire on a pakistani border outpost last november pakistan had been demanding an apology but clinton's sorry...
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without raising any red flags and without leading to any criminal arrests that's wall street and the pentagon but this latest bank heist doesn't compare to a decades long highs that's been perpetrated against the american middle class which is the subject of a new film debuting in new york and los angeles this week that the name of the film is heist here's a clip. this country is working for the richest people deal leads them so nobody else. this is been the greatest wealth transfer in history at least of the american kind if not mankind this is science folks who are in charge of running the economy. when the line of red light the red light and caused car wreck after car wreck after car wreck and no one to hold them accountable for hasn't even been a conversation american. journey now is the co-director and co-producer of heist who stole the american dream frances causey francis welcome to the show welcome back to the show great it's great to be here thanks for having me yes so i think most people when they think of the middle class getting screwed they think of will this happen in two thousa
without raising any red flags and without leading to any criminal arrests that's wall street and the pentagon but this latest bank heist doesn't compare to a decades long highs that's been perpetrated against the american middle class which is the subject of a new film debuting in new york and los angeles this week that the name of the film is heist here's a clip. this country is working for the richest people deal leads them so nobody else. this is been the greatest wealth transfer in history...
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chris lawrence live for us again at the pentagon. you've been watching the secretary of defense. give me a number once again, the number they're putting on these pentagon cuts and tell me what you've learned since you and i talked a little over an hour ago. >> well, the number's about $487 billion, brooke. so roughly half a trillion dollars in cuts. but again, these are spaced out over ten years and these are cuts based on what the pentagon had estimated it would get. in other words, it's not like i gave you $50 last year and i'm only giving you $25 this year. it's more think of it more like you expected to get this much more in five years. this much more in eight years. and you're not going to get as much as you expected. so the word cut has to be used somewhat loosely. we learned a lot. you know, we learned that they're moving towards this so-called morage jill force, that the numbers of marines and soldiers that were beefed up so much over the last ten years will be coming down to just over the levels they were before the attacks on september 11th. and we learned that a lot of
chris lawrence live for us again at the pentagon. you've been watching the secretary of defense. give me a number once again, the number they're putting on these pentagon cuts and tell me what you've learned since you and i talked a little over an hour ago. >> well, the number's about $487 billion, brooke. so roughly half a trillion dollars in cuts. but again, these are spaced out over ten years and these are cuts based on what the pentagon had estimated it would get. in other words, it's...
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he gets to one of the key issues when you're dealing with the pentagon and military spendinging. and that is, members of congress seem to like the fact that the government is reducing spending, except when it impacts contractors or companies that provide materials or products to the defense department and that means jobs in their congressional district. >> yeah, and i mean, on top of that too, one of the biggest issues in this budget proposal is brac, base realignment and closure commission. that came up again and again in the house and senate hearings. to everyone aside from ranking member smith on the house side, senator graham on the senate side, say they are 0 opposed because it amounts to bases being closed in someone's district. >> jeremy herb joining us live on the hill, hill.com. thanks as always for being with us. here's more with congressman walter jones, republican from north carolina. a huge military presence in his congressional district posing questions to defense secretary panetta. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. mr. secretary, i might be the only republican
he gets to one of the key issues when you're dealing with the pentagon and military spendinging. and that is, members of congress seem to like the fact that the government is reducing spending, except when it impacts contractors or companies that provide materials or products to the defense department and that means jobs in their congressional district. >> yeah, and i mean, on top of that too, one of the biggest issues in this budget proposal is brac, base realignment and closure...
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next new evidence of the possible health impact of september 11th >>> 11 years after the attack at the pentagon and world trade center we're learning more about the health effects on the rescue and recovery workers and survivors. according to a study out today in journal of the american medical association the attack exposed survivors the large amounts of known and suspected car sen jeans. it raises the risk of cancer to those who were exposed to the rare around -- air around the site. >> most solid tumors have a very long latency period and many don't appear for many years or decades after the initial exposure. >> that is prompting doctors to recommend continued tracking of those types of cancers in people exposadad to the site -- exposed to the site at goes. >>> the second prepares for the greater number of witnesses and policewoman now of -- glitz and glamour of the inauguration. we'll be back. >>> yes, we're starting to get more details about some of the festivities surrounding the president's second inauguration. president barack obama plans to attend a prayer service at the national cathe
next new evidence of the possible health impact of september 11th >>> 11 years after the attack at the pentagon and world trade center we're learning more about the health effects on the rescue and recovery workers and survivors. according to a study out today in journal of the american medical association the attack exposed survivors the large amounts of known and suspected car sen jeans. it raises the risk of cancer to those who were exposed to the rare around -- air around the site....
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. >> john boehner addressed the budget cuts to the pentagon and some programs that will begin next year. both republicans and democrats have said they will try to avoid those so-called fiscal cliff budget cuts at all costs. >>> the day after the election wall street took a beating. [ bell ] >> the white house is staying blue but stocks were in the red. the dow is down 312 to 12,932. its 81st worst day of the year. take a look. the dow lost 313 points today. the day after president obama was elected in 2008 it dropped 486 points. the market always doesn't move down following presidential elections. when bill clinton was reelected it rose 96 points. >>> voters approved a sales tax increase to fund county programs. it would raise $50 million each year for programs like the medical center and public health and welfare. san jose's minimum wage will increase from $8 to $10 an hour. voters approved measure d. it will take effect 90 days after results are certified. san jose measure e passed. it allows them to expand the number of tables over the next two years and allows card rooms to offer ga
. >> john boehner addressed the budget cuts to the pentagon and some programs that will begin next year. both republicans and democrats have said they will try to avoid those so-called fiscal cliff budget cuts at all costs. >>> the day after the election wall street took a beating. [ bell ] >> the white house is staying blue but stocks were in the red. the dow is down 312 to 12,932. its 81st worst day of the year. take a look. the dow lost 313 points today. the day after...
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i talked to one of the key guys over there and i said how can i help you reform the pentagon. there must be people who have stopped -- >> i bet card and love giving that call. over norquist, how can i help? [laughter] spent i get lots of meat because i start all the meetings that way. i'm serious, we want to make the government more efficient and more effective, more transparent, make it cost less. and we are everyone's friend. transparency is a subject. ralph nader and i were lobbying the bush administration struggled and then together back in 2001. >> so that is the first cliff. what about the bush tax cuts going forward? >> i think if you went over, first of all you get towards the end, and if the republicans have played with a single, let's push it out of my for two weeks while we finish this, so you should never actually go over. just as you do with continuing resolutions. if you say look, given to, give it a month. >> this president is not going to extend. he knows that he loses his leverage that way. >> the republicans also have other leverage, continuing resolutions on
i talked to one of the key guys over there and i said how can i help you reform the pentagon. there must be people who have stopped -- >> i bet card and love giving that call. over norquist, how can i help? [laughter] spent i get lots of meat because i start all the meetings that way. i'm serious, we want to make the government more efficient and more effective, more transparent, make it cost less. and we are everyone's friend. transparency is a subject. ralph nader and i were lobbying...
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jennifer, i know you have been working your sources on this at the pentagon and if he cia. what do we know now and when was this issue of the affair first exposed? how did it come about? >> well, the first that it was exposed in terms of the conversation with the president occurred yesterday. general petraeus went over to the white house and he told the president that he thought he should resign. but what we're now learning from sources close to the fbi is that the fbi had been investigating general petraeus and as part of a larger investigation, the name of paula broadwell, who is general petraeus' biographer. she wrote a book that came out in january called-"all in, the education of general david h. petraeus." she had spent about a year in afghanistan with him, documenting his life, and it seems that the fbi was investigating something broader. her name came up. they started investigating concern that general petraeus now head of the cia was possibly some sort of victim in it or could be -- could be blackmailed in some sort of way. they never found that. but in the proces
jennifer, i know you have been working your sources on this at the pentagon and if he cia. what do we know now and when was this issue of the affair first exposed? how did it come about? >> well, the first that it was exposed in terms of the conversation with the president occurred yesterday. general petraeus went over to the white house and he told the president that he thought he should resign. but what we're now learning from sources close to the fbi is that the fbi had been...
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he may be replaced by john kerry or chuck hagel or top pentagon official, ashton carter or michelle flouryon. the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan, mark grossman, the man that took over after richard holbrooke died. he too is stepping down from that onvy to afghanistan and pakistan. hillary clinton may be replaced by susan rice or somebody else. hillary clinton says she, herself, will not be staying on for the second term. so if you just want to focus on the war for a second, it is all change in terms of the leadership for the top officials in year 12 of america's longest war. all change for everybody in top roles there except for the president and the vice president and the 66,000 americans who are still in afghanistan fighting that war. america's war in afghanistan is not due to end this year or next year. it is not due to end until the end of the year after that, at the end of 2014. that's the date by which president obama says the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan will end. it seems important to note that that is the latest possible date by which the president says the combat m
he may be replaced by john kerry or chuck hagel or top pentagon official, ashton carter or michelle flouryon. the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan, mark grossman, the man that took over after richard holbrooke died. he too is stepping down from that onvy to afghanistan and pakistan. hillary clinton may be replaced by susan rice or somebody else. hillary clinton says she, herself, will not be staying on for the second term. so if you just want to focus on the war for a second, it is all...
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, for what it's worth, the pentagon said they're very happy with st. louis and the other cities marking the end of the war. and those other cities are showing us all how to do it. you just do it. you worry more about asking forgiveness than asking permission. cities doing their own thing to mark the end of the iraq
, for what it's worth, the pentagon said they're very happy with st. louis and the other cities marking the end of the war. and those other cities are showing us all how to do it. you just do it. you worry more about asking forgiveness than asking permission. cities doing their own thing to mark the end of the iraq
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we have barbara starr at the pentagon, suzanne kelly at the pentagon and a bunch of questions for them. let's take a quick break and we will talk on the other side of the break. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold... i took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't work on runny noses. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have an antihistamine. really? [ male announcer ] really. alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a fast acting antihistamine to relieve your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus. ♪ oh what a relief it is! ♪ [ male announcer ] can't find theraflu? try alka-seltzer plus for fast, liquid, cold, and flu relief. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] don't just reject convention. drown it out. introducing the all-new 2013 lexus ls f sport. an entirely new pursuit. >>> breaking news. retired four star general david petraeus stepping down. the president accepting his resign
we have barbara starr at the pentagon, suzanne kelly at the pentagon and a bunch of questions for them. let's take a quick break and we will talk on the other side of the break. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold... i took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't work on runny noses. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have an antihistamine. really? [ male announcer ] really. alka-seltzer plus cold and cough...
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, for what it's worth, the pentagon has said they're happy with st. louis and they're happy for other cities to do other things to mark the end of the war and fayetteville and rich monday, virginia, tucson and rome, georgia and st. louis, missouri are showing us all how to do it. you just do
, for what it's worth, the pentagon has said they're happy with st. louis and they're happy for other cities to do other things to mark the end of the war and fayetteville and rich monday, virginia, tucson and rome, georgia and st. louis, missouri are showing us all how to do it. you just do
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the white house proposing some steep cuts in pentagon spending, but some sharp reaction from members of congress including buck me keon, the chair of the armed services committee as he questioned defense secretary leon panetta. you'll hear from adam smith, democrat from washington state. >> given we have the cr hanging over us and sequestration kicking in, i, mr. secretary, talked to you about this, i put in a bill to -- in is going to be serious talking about everything we are dealing with today, the sequestration taking it over the top and hearing the news reports age in clfrom kore know general, you told us in a meet i meeting a couple of weeks ago in your 37 years, this is the most serious you've ever seen it. so i think these are serious questions. my bill would pay for the first year of sequestration, which moves it back a year. it does it with as little pain as possible through attrition decreasing the size of the federal workforce. but i'm asking you, mr. secretary, if this is something you could support, trying to fix sequestration now, instead of having all of the people th
the white house proposing some steep cuts in pentagon spending, but some sharp reaction from members of congress including buck me keon, the chair of the armed services committee as he questioned defense secretary leon panetta. you'll hear from adam smith, democrat from washington state. >> given we have the cr hanging over us and sequestration kicking in, i, mr. secretary, talked to you about this, i put in a bill to -- in is going to be serious talking about everything we are dealing...
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>> bret: jennifer griffin at pentagon. thank you. >>> still ahead -- get ready to shell out more of your money for obamacare. first, the republicans court the hispanic vote. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] while you're getting ready for the holidays, we're getting ready for you. tis the season. for food, for family, and now, something extra -- for you. >> bret: the republican outreach to hispanics and other minorities is taking shape. the house today voted on the first step in g.o.p. immigration reform. correspondent doug mckelway tells us what is in it. >> with today's passage of stem jobs act, republican controlled house goes on record with a pro immigration, pro job creation bill. it provides green cards for 55,000 immigrants with advanced degrees in the sciences. but it also allows the recipient's families to join them and attempt to end the brain drain that hampers the high-tech industry. >> it makes no sense to educate people, bright, talented people and then frankly deport them so they can compete against the united
>> bret: jennifer griffin at pentagon. thank you. >>> still ahead -- get ready to shell out more of your money for obamacare. first, the republicans court the hispanic vote. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] while you're getting ready for the holidays, we're getting ready for you. tis the season. for food, for family, and now, something extra -- for you. >> bret: the republican outreach to hispanics and other minorities is taking shape. the house today voted on the first step...
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customers can purchase the new cards at metro sales offices at metrocenter and pentagon stations. and metro headquarters in northwest. northwest. . >>> if you're planning to fly to grandma's house to thanksgiving this year, you won't believe alone. an airline trade group said travelers can expect to see busy area airports and full planes during the holiday. nearly 24 million people are expected to fly between november 16th and 27th and that is up from last year, expected to be 97% full, a record for the holiday. >>> and looking live outside, would you agree this is the day you that felt the cold in your fingers. >> yeah. >> time for gloves now. >> it started coming in and i know probably some folks, not necessarily here in the region, gary, are concerned about the storm heading our way. >> where the storm is impacting to the northwest and that is pretty rough. again, i mean, for us, don't want to be misunderstood here, for us, this is a nor'easter light. it stayed far enough offshore that we're getting little if any impact and probably all we're getting is a bit of a gusty breeze
customers can purchase the new cards at metro sales offices at metrocenter and pentagon stations. and metro headquarters in northwest. northwest. . >>> if you're planning to fly to grandma's house to thanksgiving this year, you won't believe alone. an airline trade group said travelers can expect to see busy area airports and full planes during the holiday. nearly 24 million people are expected to fly between november 16th and 27th and that is up from last year, expected to be 97%...
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host: what would the pentagon cut if sequestration happen? guest: 9.4% cut, so it is on the order of $500 billion a little bit more. about half over all, over 10- year cuts in spending. it is a significant cut. host: going back to what we started with, they have not said specifically what they were looking at or bay -- have given the public some idea? guest: they said, first of all, but would be almost, but -- unavoidable to have furloughs. certainly contracts spending would be cut. the president had an option to exempt troops, the impact on their pay and he indicated he would exercise the option if that happens, so that would not be on the table. but there would definitely be cuts in weapons systems, contract and, and civilian furloughs. host: burlington, north carolina. republican caller. caller: i think we all have to agree -- in a sense that we are all in agreement -- that something needs to happen. but we already have the tools in place. we have bowles-simpson, which was an idea. the fear is that nothing is going to get done until januar
host: what would the pentagon cut if sequestration happen? guest: 9.4% cut, so it is on the order of $500 billion a little bit more. about half over all, over 10- year cuts in spending. it is a significant cut. host: going back to what we started with, they have not said specifically what they were looking at or bay -- have given the public some idea? guest: they said, first of all, but would be almost, but -- unavoidable to have furloughs. certainly contracts spending would be cut. the...
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so i'm confident that, you know, with a little longer-term view the pentagon can be fine. and one of the things that the group agrees on is that both with that time and where we are in terms of our overall requirements in a changing world, the advancement of technology, the quality of the people we have -- and they're the best i've seen in over 43 years of having the privilege to wear the uniform -- that we will be fine from a defense standpoint. but i also would pick up on what senator nunn said, quoting bill perry. and i've seen this in countries and in regions globally where the failure to be able to invest in preventive defense, engagement, having a relationship, helping other militaries train in their own countries, the not being able to do that just increases the likelihood of some kind of conflict breaking out which may or may not involve us. and that preventive piece is one of the first pieces that leaves under this kind of pressure. i do think that with, you know, if this is well done, creating a framework that the national security team moving forward can put som
so i'm confident that, you know, with a little longer-term view the pentagon can be fine. and one of the things that the group agrees on is that both with that time and where we are in terms of our overall requirements in a changing world, the advancement of technology, the quality of the people we have -- and they're the best i've seen in over 43 years of having the privilege to wear the uniform -- that we will be fine from a defense standpoint. but i also would pick up on what senator nunn...
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. >> reporter: according to our pentagon correspondent, the department of defense has halted most joint-u.s.-afghan operations until they can find a way to quell this alarming trend that has already cost 51 coalition lives this year. officials call it a lack of trust. shoulder to shoulder, afghans and americans fighting alongside together. that has been nato's mission to produce a successful end to america's longest war, but hoping that the process, raises the question by some, can there be a good finish. >> thank you, even as the protests continue, so does the fallout from the murder of those four americans, including ambassador christopher stevens at the u.s. embassy compound in benghazi, libya, new reporting tonight on the security situation before the fatal attack. >> reporter: today, the burned out consulate in benghazi is sealed off, and security is tight. but why was there not more security the 94 americans were killed? over the weekend, the ambassador, susan rice claims, there was a strong security presence at the consulate. >> we had security personnel in benghazi, a significant nu
. >> reporter: according to our pentagon correspondent, the department of defense has halted most joint-u.s.-afghan operations until they can find a way to quell this alarming trend that has already cost 51 coalition lives this year. officials call it a lack of trust. shoulder to shoulder, afghans and americans fighting alongside together. that has been nato's mission to produce a successful end to america's longest war, but hoping that the process, raises the question by some, can there...
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>> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. still ahead. getting hot under the collar over solar industry profits. first, assume the republicans and the democrats strike a fiscal cliff deal. what happens then? many of my patients still clean their dentures with toothpaste. but they have to use special care in keeping the denture clean. dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident is designed to clean dentures daily. its unique micro-clean formula kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. that's why i recommend using polident. [ male announcer ] polident. cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. brain upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. >> bret: we had 22 days before the economy goes over the so-call
>> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. still ahead. getting hot under the collar over solar industry profits. first, assume the republicans and the democrats strike a fiscal cliff deal. what happens then? many of my patients still clean their dentures with toothpaste. but they have to use special care in keeping the denture clean. dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident is...
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news from the pentagon today that the u.s. will provide an additional $70 million to support israel's short range missile defense system, that announcement from leon panetta issuing a statement saying that he was directed by the president to fill israel's request for the cash needed to run what is known as the iron dome system. the u.s. already has provided israel with more than $200 million for this system in addition to the roughly $3 billion given to israel annually for security assistance and the defense department plans to request additional funding for the iron dome over the next three years and an exact figure on the additional assistance has not been given and it was one of the question that is came up earlier with spokesperson george little. >> spencer. >> is the department looking for any applications that iron dome might have to the united states for either protecting or site installations, perhaps navy ships, et cetera? >> the focus of iron dome is the course on israel and at this stage and if there are application
news from the pentagon today that the u.s. will provide an additional $70 million to support israel's short range missile defense system, that announcement from leon panetta issuing a statement saying that he was directed by the president to fill israel's request for the cash needed to run what is known as the iron dome system. the u.s. already has provided israel with more than $200 million for this system in addition to the roughly $3 billion given to israel annually for security assistance...
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. >>> the pentagon says iranian aircraft fired twice at an unarmed u.s. drone patrolling the persian gulf last week. the shots missed and the drone was unharmed. >>> and next week, a house panel will hold a hearing on the september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead. >>> and now here's your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. shell shocked. that is how a campaign adviser describes mitt romney's reaction after giving his concession speech. this according to cbs news. insiders tell nbc news the campaign closed down so quickly some staffers couldn't even use their campaign-funded credit cards to pay for their taxis home that night because they'd been deactivated. >>> florida secretary of state says he hopes to finally have full election results by saturday, but the romney campaign says either way it won't bother contesting the numbers. >>> look fast because this is probably all you'll ever see of president elect romney's website. it accidently went live just long enough for political blogger to ca
. >>> the pentagon says iranian aircraft fired twice at an unarmed u.s. drone patrolling the persian gulf last week. the shots missed and the drone was unharmed. >>> and next week, a house panel will hold a hearing on the september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead. >>> and now here's your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. shell shocked. that is how a campaign adviser describes mitt romney's reaction...